Budget alerts configuration in GCP - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Budget alerts configuration

📖 Scenario: You are managing a Google Cloud Platform project and want to keep track of your spending. To avoid surprises, you decide to set up budget alerts that notify you when your costs reach certain percentages of your budget.

🎯 Goal: Create a budget alert configuration in Google Cloud that defines a budget amount and sets alert thresholds at 50%, 75%, and 90% of the budget.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a budget configuration dictionary with a specific budget amount

Add alert threshold rules for 50%, 75%, and 90% spending

Use the correct keys and structure for GCP budget alerts

Complete the budget alert configuration with all required fields

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Setting budget alerts helps cloud users avoid unexpected charges by notifying them when spending reaches certain levels.

💼 Career

Cloud engineers and administrators often configure budget alerts to monitor and control cloud costs effectively.

1

Create the initial budget configuration

Create a dictionary called budget_config with a key amount set to 1000 representing the budget amount in USD.

GCP

# Create the budget_config dictionary with amount 1000
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a dictionary with key "amount" and value 1000.

2

Add alert threshold rules

Add a key alert_rules to budget_config with a list of dictionaries. Each dictionary should have a key threshold_percent with values 50, 75, and 90 respectively.

GCP

budget_config = {
    "amount": 1000
}
# Add alert_rules list with threshold_percent 50, 75, and 90
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a list of dictionaries under the key alert_rules.

3

Add notification channels

Add a key notifications to budget_config with a list containing the string "[e-mail]" to receive budget alert emails.

GCP

budget_config = {
    "amount": 1000,
    "alert_rules": [
        {"threshold_percent": 50},
        {"threshold_percent": 75},
        {"threshold_percent": 90}
    ]
}
# Add notifications list with email '[e-mail]'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Notifications should be a list of email strings.

4

Complete the budget alert configuration

Add a key budget_name with the value "MyProjectBudget" to budget_config to name your budget.

GCP

budget_config = {
    "amount": 1000,
    "alert_rules": [
        {"threshold_percent": 50},
        {"threshold_percent": 75},
        {"threshold_percent": 90}
    ],
    "notifications": ["[e-mail]"]
}
# Add budget_name key with value 'MyProjectBudget'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the key budget_name with the exact string value.